Jonathan Johnson, ex-chairman of Overstock’s board of administrators, touched on the advantages of cryptocurrencies and famous the great potential of blockchain-based expertise. Regardless of the at present hemorrhaging market, he nonetheless sees a variety of benefits in using cryptocurrencies over conventional bank card funds.

Higher Than Credit score Playing cards

Presently sitting on the Board of Administrators of Overstock.com – a serious on-line retailer accepting cryptocurrencies as a cost technique — Jonathan Johnson shared his overtly constructive sentiment in direction of digital currencies and their underlying expertise with Forbes.

In accordance with Johnson, Overstock.com will get round zero.2 p.c of its complete income from cryptocurrencies. This proportion sums as much as someplace between $68,000 and $120,000 per week. The ex-chairman notes that it is a rising pattern, even supposing the general cryptocurrency market has been quickly declining over the primary half of 2018.

Overstock is partly recognized for being the primary main on-line retailers to embrace bitcoin, and Johnson has often expressed his affinity in direction of the cryptocurrency. Nonetheless, now that the market is correcting, one would count on to see indicators of concern — if not negativity.

But, regardless of the volatility, Johnson stays completely constructive about cryptocurrencies as a type of cost.

For starters, he notes that accepting conventional bank card funds prices the corporate a reasonably penny:

We pay a processing payment for bank cards, and we make use of about 40 individuals in our fraud division. That’s a value of doing enterprise with bank cards.

On the similar time, Johnson notes that cryptocurrencies don’t have any of the aforementioned points — therefore making it an entire lot cheaper to do enterprise:

After we take cryptocurrency, we now have a really small transaction payment with Coinbase, a lot smaller than our bank card processing payment, and we now have no fraud prevention division. It’s like a money transaction. For us, that could be a less expensive means of doing enterprise.

A Name for Regulatory Readability

Johnson additionally conceded that he’s “not a fan of regulation.” A lot so, in reality, that he believes blockchain-based expertise shouldn’t be regulated.